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German prosecutors said yesterday they had widened an investigation into payments made during the Vodafone Group's takeover of Mannesmann last year. The inquiry will now include Vodafone's chief executive, Chris Gent, and the chief...

The Vodafone Group said that it planned eventually to list shares of the mobile carrier J-Phone on the stock market. ''It would be a good idea at some stage to list J-Phone and have investors take a participating interest,'' the chief executive of...

The Vodafone Group, the world's leading mobile phone company, announced today a solid rise in first-half profit, excluding the cost of acquisitions. The report propelled a surge in technology issues on the London stock exchange. Earlier this year,...

November 15, 2000, Wednesday

Chris Gent, the highflying chief executive of Vodafone AirTouch, has discovered that success in making megadeals does not guarantee immunity from shareholder criticism. Last week, Vodafone's annual meeting was the scene of a rare spasm of investor...

Klaus Esser, the besieged chief executive of Mannesmann, discussed the possibility of a friendly merger today with Chris Gent, the head of Vodafone AirTouch, people close to the talks said. People close to Mannesmann cautioned that the two...

Klaus Esser, the chairman of the German industrial power Mannesmann, has built his career by amassing control. The next seven days will determine if he loses it. In the last week of an election-style campaign that may determine who will dominate...

Pressing a hostile $127.7 billion bid for Mannesmann A.G., the British wireless giant Vodafone AirTouch P.L.C. urged the German company to ''discuss our proposal with us in the interests of all our shareholders.'' Mannesmann began its defense against...

Brushing aside a legal challenge to its advisers and the rejection of a $106.4 billion offer over the weekend, the mobile phone giant Vodafone Airtouch P.L.C. said today that it would present a sweetened bid for Mannesmann A.G. later this week, and...

Despite a show of public nonchalance, Vodafone Airtouch P.L.C., the world's leading mobile phone operator, is privately considering a range of options including a hostile bid for Mannesmann A.G. after the German company's move into the British...

The ink is barely dry on the agreement, but already the newest entrant in the nation's cellular phone wars is emerging as a formidable competitor. The Bell Atlantic Corporation, the nation's largest local phone company, and Britain's largest...